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This title was first published in 2000: This volume focuses on the influence of, and additionally explores the value adding contribution of, information systems and related technologies on the develo …

Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required during …

In his celebrated manifesto, "Aircraft" (1935), the architect Le Corbusier presented more than 100 photographs celebrating aeroplanes either in imperious flight or elegantly at rest. Dwelli …

From Kanga and her son Roo in Winnie the Pooh to the boxing champ Hippety Hopper who punches Sylvester in Looney Tunes, kangaroos appear frequently in children’s books, cartoons, and songs. They are …

This book provides the readers with much of the understanding of empathy, examining empathy from the standpoint of contemporary social/personality psychology and emphasizing these disciplines” tradi …

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the United States today. The bitter national debate over California”s Proposition 187, the influx of Cuban refugees into Miami, and th …

What can be done to warn about and organize political action to prevent genocide and mass atrocities? The international contributors to this volume are either experts or practitioners, often both, wh …

Since publication in 1957 the importance of Bohannan”s study of judicial institutions and procedures among the Tiv has been widely recognized. It has contributed widely to the continuing discussion …

Whatever happened to the post–Cold War “peace dividend”? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nearly universal desire to reduce government waste a …

For more than two thousand years Christian expansion and proselytizing was couched in terms of ”defending the faith”. Until recently in the United States, much of that defense came in the form of r …